Chris Lee

@chris-lee-cal.bsky.social

Former Hill staff. Policy wonk and suburban Dad. Alumni - Team Barbara Lee! Once Team Lee Always Team Lee!

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

I am watching a 1992 movie that is set in the far future of 2005, where a city is flooded because of climate change. 34 years ago we knew, and were making cautionary media about it. And today there are still fools who say it's a hoax, because sometimes it's still cold out. 🙄

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

propublica.org

Angus: He has said on multiple occasions that he thinks he should be able to arbitrarily move the border… That's the Great Lakes. So you arbitrarily move the border, that's an invasion.

“The lead agent from Mr. Trump's detail during his four years out of office, Sean M. Curran, now oversees the agency.” Trump only knows a small number of people, all idiots. So that’s who assigns to important things, because there is no vetting process he trusts. And this is the inevitable outcome.

Secret Service Officials Said to Be Put on Leave Amid Internal Inquiry (Gift Article)

The agency’s top spokesman is among those on leave, according to two Trump administration officials. The agency said three people faced a misconduct investigation.

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At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?

ICE ripped 50,000 human beings from their homes and disappeared them into cages last month. 50,000 empty dinner tables. 50,000 cold beds. State-sponsored terror disguised as policy. Silence is complicity. We cannot look away. Fight back.